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Psalterium Americanum. The Book of Psalms, in a translation exactly conformed unto the original;…
Psalterium Americanum. The Book of Psalms, in a translation exactly conformed unto the original; but all in blank verse. : Fitted unto the tunes commonly used in our churches. Which pure offering is accompanied with illustrations, digging for hidden treasures in it; and rules to employ it upon the glorious and various intentions of it. : Whereunto are added, some other portions of the sacred Scripture, to enrich the cantional.
Boston: printed by S. Kneeland for B. Eliot, 1718
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
9 Arnobius will tell you, A New Song, is, A New Life; And Kings are Victoros Vitiorum.
11 A Right Hand of a Lye, Take R. Obadiah Gaons Gloss upon it; Scribere falsa. It writes falsehoods.
What is it they speak? Some take it, for the Opinion, That Happiness lies in Temporal Blessings here. Corrected at last so, Happy that People whose God is the Lord. An Happiness not enjoyed until the Resurrection-World.
12 Kimchi observes, That the Method and Order of the Blessings here, is taken from, Deut. XXVIII. 4.